Thursday, November 14, 2013

Woman faces animal cruelty charges after 111 rabbits found in home

COLORADO -- Officers wearing hazmat suits found dead rabbits between couch cushions and packed into freezers at the evacuated home of a Pinewood Springs woman after this fall’s floods.

Katherine Von Meister, 51, is charged with cruelty against 111 rabbits found alive in her 697-square-foot home days after September’s catastrophic floods forced people to flee the mountain community northwest of Lyons. But she said Wednesday the circumstances aren’t her fault, and she’s on a mission for peace.


 
Larimer Humane Society has adopted out or transferred all but 10 of the rabbits, upsetting Von Meister. She said the enormous number of criminal counts, carrying a maximum sentence of more than 160 years if she’s convicted on all of them, is part of a government agenda to stop her galactic work.

After finding the rabbits in the home and garage, living among urine and feces, officials put Von Meister on a three-day psychiatric hold. She said she was found to be mentally healthy.

“I am a minister, I am a healer, and I am probably the most emotionally-balanced person on the planet,” she told the Coloradoan.

She said the situation at her home got especially out of hand after September’s floods cut electricity to her house for six days. A Larimer County Sheriff’s deputy discovered the mess Sept. 19, and animal control officers removed the rabbits by helicopter a day later.


Von Meister said she’s kept rabbits — healthy, clean and neutered — for 18 years. But in the past year, technological “attacks were so bad, I did make the mistake of not neutering them” to protect them, she told the Coloradoan on Wednesday. The result was more rabbits than could live comfortably in the space, she said.

In the attacks Von Meister referenced, a dark entity would “send a ship that shot a red laser beam through the ceiling at the bunny,” according to her statements in a case report from the Humane Society. The rabbit victims were placed in freezers for protection, until they might later be revived, she said.

(Coloradoan - Nov 14, 2013)

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